Here’s an interesting post from Harvard Business Review. I think this information applies to life in general, not just at work. What are your thoughts?
An Easy Way to Make Your Employees Happier.
Here’s an interesting post from Harvard Business Review. I think this information applies to life in general, not just at work. What are your thoughts?
An Easy Way to Make Your Employees Happier.
This is a provocative article. (It starts out saying, “Imagine you are Mary Barra.”)
Only 20% of senior leaders let those who work for them know about their efforts to manage stress. Why don’t more leaders share their stress management strategies?
Read on and let me know what you think.
Let’s ALL play more today! Check out Josh Linkner’s blog. (I already feel lighter.)
Here’s a great article from Travis Bradberry, co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and president at TalentSmart:
How Successful People Handle Toxic People | LinkedIn.
I would encourage saving it to refer to when needed, (and we all will need it sometime!)
The numbers are rolling in, and it’s more an more clear that the positive effects of employee engagement are enormous, yet only 25% of CEOs report having an employee engagement plan in place.
What is your organization doing to capture the ROI of high employee engagement? I’d love to hear what’s working best for you.
6 Eye-Opening Employee Engagement Statistics – TalentCulture.
Excellent post by my friend, LeAura! Some quick things you can start doing today, and, the research to back it up!
I met Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool, and first heard him speak at the Positive Business conference a few weeks ago here at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. An interesting guy, and a very interesting take on how to run a business.
This is an excellent article. How would you rate yourself on each of these measures?
Tony Schwartz and Chistine Porath get it right again as they discuss why the way we’re working isn’t working, and some of the basic principles of the Energy Project.
It’s easy to think of vacation and time off as the best way to increase employee well-being, but, in fact, in the long run, engagement is much more important to an employee’s well-being than the amount of time they have off of work.
The employee that is highly engaged at work, frequently enjoys a blurring of the distinction between work and play, and often finds themselves energized by things that occur at work rather than de-energized or depleted.
In addition, numerous serious research studies have shown that the more often people find themselves in the state of “flow”, (where they are so entirely consumed in what is happening in the moment that they lose all sense of time and of the other activities going on around them), the happier they are.
For Employee Wellbeing, Engagement Trumps Time Off.
Coaching Tip:
Forget about long vacations, and consider what changes you can make to move more in the direction of “I love my work” and “I get a chance to do my best work every day.”
Go for more “flow.”
Ah…. negative thinking. The true “bane of our existance.”
If I had a dollar for every time I worked with a client on their negative thinking, (or their “inner critic” as we call it in the coaching world), I’d be a very rich woman!
Daniel Amen, M.D. calls them ANTs (automatic negative thoughts.) Whatever you call them, here is some solid information about what you can do about them.
I hope you enjoy this article from FAST COMPANY. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The 20-Minute Exercise To Eradicate Negative Thinking | Fast Company.